Wednesday, August 27, 2008

She's a cowgirl, baby!

I realized over the weekend that for the very first time since it's inauguration, I totally forgot about posting my weekly "Gal" Friday feature. I guess for once, my mind just wasn't firmly planted in the gutter.

I have already selected someone for this Friday, so to tide us over until then, and to make me feel a little better about the lapse, here is an anonymous young lady (well, at least part of her) from an unidentified source to whet our appetite for some fetching female flesh.

How it all began ....

In 1933, publishers at Eastern Color Press, intent to make better use of their printing equipment (which frequently sat idle between jobs), came up with the idea of printing an 8-page comic section that could be folded down from the large broadsheet to a smaller 9-inch by 12-inch format. The result was the first modern comic book. Containing reprints of newspaper comic strips, this experimental comic book titled "Funnies On Parade" was given away for free. It proved so popular that the following year Eastern published "Famous Funnies" and took the bold step of selling the comic for ten cents through chain stores. The enterprise was a smashing success and Eastern began churning out numerous reprints on a monthly basis. Other publishers, eager to get in on the profits, jumped on the bandwagon and the comic book industry was born!